Business Architect

Capcircle Management Consultants; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 700 000 - 900 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consultancy firm in South Africa is seeking a Business Architect with over 10 years of experience. The role involves leading strategic transformation and aligning business capabilities with the overall strategy. Candidates should have experience in telecommunications, strong strategic thinking skills, and relevant certifications like TOGAF or CPBA. This is an excellent opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience in business architecture or related fields.
• Experience in telecommunications environment is beneficial.
• Experience with business architecture certification such as TOGAF or CPBA.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic transformation by aligning business capabilities with strategy.
• Oversee architecture of new and existing business processes.
• Identify opportunities for improvement and future-state models.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder engagement

Governance expertise

Business process modeling

Organizational design

Education

Bachelor's Degree

MBA or Master's Degree

Business architecture certifications

Tools

UML/BPMN

Enterprise architecture tools

Job description

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Role Specific requirements: The Business Architect must lead strategic transformation by aligning business capabilities with The Company's strategy.

The role demands 10+ years' experience in business architecture or similar, including telecom exposure, process modeling (UML/BPMN), and enterprise architecture tools.

Strong strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement, and governance expertise are essential, supported by certifications like TOGAF or CPBA.

A business architect is a strategic role that is responsible for business transformation and overseeing critical deliverables such as business capability models, business capabilities and value streams.

The main responsibility is leading the architecture of new or re-architecting aspects of existing ones. The role of the business architect includes:

• Providing an overview of the organization's capabilities.
• Describing the organization's strategy and identifying opportunities, threats and limitations.
• Aligning capabilities with strategy and ensuring new capabilities don't adversely affect existing ones.
• Planning and designing a business architecture strategy based on various business scenarios and motivations.
• Capturing vital views of the organization through a structured business architecture approach.
• Identifying areas for improvement and designing future‑state models that support the strategic goals of the organisation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent.
• Ideally majors include physics, maths, computer science, business or information technology management.
• MBA or master's degree would be advantageous.
• Business architecture certification such as CPBA (Certified Pega Business Architect), Business Architecture Guild (BIZBOK) or The Open Group Certification in Business Architecture (TOGAF).
• Certificates around business process improvement, digital and analytics, Agile BPM, agile business analysis, digital transformation, decision automation and process mining an advantage.

Work Experience

• 6+ years in Senior Business Analysis, Business Architecture, Solutions Architecture in Telco or Digital Platform Operators.
• Telco experience an advantage.
• Minimum 10 years' experience in a senior role including at least 5 years in the telecommunication environment.
• Experience in modelling business processes by using various tools and techniques (e.g. UML).
• Experience with enterprise architecture modelling tools.
• Work across diverse cultures and geographies.
• Understanding of strategic delivery and translating strategy into execution.
• Experience in conducting research and trend analysis.
• In-depth understanding of emerging as well as mature markets.
• Recognized business architecture tools and methodologies, good business analysis and process understanding.
• Organisational Design experience is an added advantage.

Key Competencies

• Recognized business architecture tools and methodologies, good business analysis and process understanding.
• Organisational Design experience and added advantage.

Technical Qualification

• Business architecture certification such as CPBA (Certified Pega Business Architect), or Business Architecture Guild (BIZBOK) or The Open Group Certification in Business Architecture (TOGAF).